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"New York 1964 New York" è il racconto di un viaggio seminale; è soprattutto il diario di un'esperienza estetica e umana all'indomani della quale Boatto preciserà le sue intuizioni comprendendo il realismo da grande narrazione epica dell'arte americana, grazie agli incontri fatti, alle opere viste negli studi e, più di tutto, alla vita della città.

Il giovane Kihlgren parte da un progetto di tutela dei borghi storici in abbandono e del loro paesaggio duro, intenso e desolato ma che ha cancellato per dar vita a un’immagine più spendibile, una propria caratteristica fondante, la sua intima spiritualità. Vuole affrontare questa esperienza in prima persona, cercando di vivere l’ascesi di questi territori, ma è a questo punto che arrivano le giovani pastorelle abruzzesi portando al fallimento incondizionato la ricerca di santità e purezza del giovane.

Un texto brutal y necesario, que cuenta lo que casi nadie quiere oír y reflexiona sobre los riesgos, la ética y la necesidad del oficio de periodista. Hay tres cadáveres con nombre y vida en Los muertos y el periodista. Hay más, pero tres son esenciales. Tres hermanos salvadoreños pobres cuyos cuerpos aparecieron desfigurados (como poco) en un cañaveral. Este libro cuenta su historia. ¿Los tres hermanos han muerto realmente en un enfrentamiento entre pandilleros rivales? ¿A quién se protege no investigando las pruebas?

Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These culminated in What Is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire, and even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned and iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good; for the improvement of humankind.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 4 greatest works of non-fiction in one audiobook. The essays included here are: What is Art?, The Inevitable Revolution, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, A Confession.

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.

Once historias nada ejemplares, de esas que nunca veréis en el muro de una red social. Las once historias que descubriréis en estas páginas son vivencias reales, crudas y duras. Once jóvenes, casi niños, nos abren su corazón desde el centro de internamiento en el que están privados de libertad y cumplen con la justicia, para relatarnos hechos que han destrozado su vida y la de los demás. Son protagonistas de sucesos muy violentos, que ojalá formasen parte del argumento de una serie de televisión, pero, desgraciadamente, son casos que abren informativos. 

Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, color theory, horticulture, and textile production, Kishkan weaves a pattern of richly textured threads, welcoming listeners to share her intellectual and emotional preoccupations. 

Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition, juxtaposing lyrical descriptions of the countryside with criticism of the poverty of agricultural workers. A man of radical politics who encouraged the rural rising of 1830, Cobbett went on to become MP for Oldham and sought to represent the interests of both industrial and agricultural workers. Above all, Rural Rides celebrates agrarian England.

Cohen's subjects in A Place to Read can be as commonplace as golfing with close friends, amateur astronomy, birding, or learning to fly at the age of sixty. But he asks difficult questions about how we are grounded in space and time, how we are affected by our names, how a healthy person can turn into a hypochondriac, and how we might commune with the dead. And throughout he measures, compares and interprets his experiences through the lens of six decades of reading.

Before Adam Farrer’s family relocated to Withernsea in 1992, he’d never heard of the Holderness coast. The move represented one thing to Adam: a chance to leave the insecurities of early adolescence behind. And he could do that anywhere. What he didn’t know was how much he’d grow to love the quirks and people of this faded Yorkshire resort, in spite of its dilapidated attractions and retreating clifftops. While Adam documents the minutiae of small-town life, he lays bare experiences that are universal. 

En agosto de 1928, Manuel Chaves se embarca en un viaje en avión por Europa con la finalidad de escribir una serie de reportajes para el periódico del que es redactor jefe, Heraldo de Madrid. De Madrid a Bakú, pasando por Berlín y Leningrado: del Mediterráneo al Caspio. Chaves fue pionero en utilizar los adelantos técnicos de la época, como el avión, para ofrecer a sus lectores testimonios de primera mano sobre la situación política y social de algunos de los principales países europeos.

¿Son compatibles la libertad estética y el compromiso político? McEwan reflexiona a partir de Orwell y Camus. En 1940 George Orwell publicó el ensayo "En el vientre de la ballena", en el que se pregunta cómo pueden conjugar los escritores la integridad estética y el compromiso político. ¿Son compatibles? ¿Cuál debe prevalecer por encima del otro? ¿Tiene sentido exigirle a un creador la denuncia de las injusticias del mundo? Años después, en 1957, Albert Camus, otro heterodoxo antitotalitario, y temprano denunciante del estalinismo, se planteó el mismo asunto.

Una mirada contemporània a la vida i l'obra de Mary Shelley i al seu monstre immortal. "Més enllà de les justes reivindicacions de la crítica feminista, més enllà dels fills legítims i bastards a la cultura popular, més enllà dels abusos biogràfics que s'han comès i es cometen a partir de la seva extraordinària vida, Mary Shelley és una de les grans escriptores de la història, [...] un dels més grans escriptors que han existit."

Op reis saam met Marita van der Vyver, van Pretoria tot Provence! Retoer: Pretoria - Provence is ’n bundel van dié bekroonde en immergewilde skrywer se beste rubrieke, sketse en essays wat nog nie voorheen in bundelformaat uitgegee is nie. Dit sluit in ’n rubriek oor seksuele teistering waarvoor sy in 2018 met ’n ATKV-Mediaveertjie vereer is. 

Un audiolibro más necesario que nunca, destinado a tender puentes entre el prejuicio y la realidad, entre el este y el oeste, entre el Otro y la identidad. Patricia Almarcegui, periodista especializada en viajes, realiza una profunda investigación sobre el sabio y aventurero Domingo Badía y Leblich, también conocido como Alí Bey, en sus viajes por Europa, Turquía y Marruecos. Un audiolibro que trata de la otredad, de la capacidad para encontrar el hogar en el extranjero, del acercamiento de pueblos que no son tan distintos como nos han hecho pensar.

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.

A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers.  

Books v Cigarettes is a funny and irreverent essay comparing the costs of reading to other forms of recreation including smoking. Originating from the experience of an editor friend who was firewatching during the Second World War, who was told by factory workers that they had no interest in literature because they could not afford books, the essay first appeared in Tribune in 1946.

During The Blitz of 1941, as Nazi bombers flew overhead, George Orwell penned this stirring analysis of England and its people. Whilst not shying away from the difficulties of the nation, and the fractuous nature of its divisions, Orwell places a premium on the country's ability to come together in a time of crisis and protect its democratic values, even in the most dire of circumstances.